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Otto 1., også kaldet Otto den Store (; 23. november 912 – 7. maj 973), var tysk-romersk konge fra 936 til 973 og den tysk-romerske kejser fra 962 til 973.

Han overtog den tyske trone efter sin far, Henrik Fuglefænger. Fra 936 var Otto 1. tysk-romersk konge og fra 951 konge af Italien. Han blev kronet til tysk-romersk kejser i år 962. I sine forsøg på at kristne Norden og de slaviske folk, udsendte han mange missionærer. Det førte til dannelsen af staterne Polen og Tjekkiet (Bøhmen). Især det førte til, at disse folk blev katolske og ikke ortodokse som de andre slaviske folk. Han reddede til og med kristenheden ved at afværge ungarske angreb, og blev derfor kaldt for "Europas befrier". Det afgørende slag ved Lechfeldslaget stod den 10. august 955.

Sønnen Otto 2. fulgte faderen som kejser i 973.

Liv og karriere

Tidlig styre
Otto blev gift med angelsaksiske Edith (Ædgyth) (910-946), datter af kong Edvard den ældre i 929. I 936 fulgte han sin far Henrik Fuglefænger på tronen.

Han valgte at blive kronet i Karl den stores tidligere hovedstad Aachen, hvor han blev salvet af Hildebert, ærkebiskop af Mainz, overhoved for den tyske kirke. I henhold til den saksiske historiker Widukind af Corvey var der fire andre hertuger fra riget tilstede, fra Franken, Schwaben, Bayern og Lorraine, og som var hans personlige ledsagere: Arnulf 1. af Bayern som marskalk (staldmester); Herman 1. af Schwaben som mundskænk; Eberhard 3. af Franken som hovmester, og Gilbert af Lorraine som kammerherre. Fra begyndelsen af Ottos styre gav han klare signaler om, at han var en efterfølger til Karl den store, hvis sidste arvinger til Østfranken var døde i 911, og at han havde den tyske kirke med dens mægtige biskopper og abbeder bag sig. Imidlertid var Vestfranken fortsat underlagt herskeren fra det karolingske dynasti.

Otto havde til hensigt at dominere kirken og forene de tyske landområder. Kirken tilbød rigdom, soldater og sit monopol på læse- og skrivekundskab. Han kunne til gengæld tilbyde beskyttelse mod adelen, love økonomiske tilskud og en vej til magt som hans administrative tjenere. I 938 blev en sølvkilde opdaget i Rammelsberg i Sachsen. Den mine sørgede for at finansiere Ottos aktiviteter gennem hele hans styre; faktisk bidrog den til skaffe det meste af Europas sølv, kobber og bly i de næste to hundrede år. Årsagen til det er, at andre sølvkilder var tørrede ud allerede i 820- og 830'erne på grund af politiske vanskeligheder i det muslimske Abbasiderrige og som igen havde ført til krise i Europa.

Ottos tidlige styre var kendetegnet af hertugernes oprør. I 938 havde Eberhard, hertug af Bayern, nægtet at betale ham tribut. Otto svarede med at gå i krig to gange: i foråret og i efteråret 938. Han besejrede Eberhard og forviste ham. Berthold, broder til Arnulf, tidligere hertug af Kärnten, blev ny hertug af Bayern.

Efter at Siegfried, greve af Merseburg, døde i 937, krævede Thankmar dette grevskab, men Otto udnævnte Gero, broder til Siegfried, som ny greve. I løbet af denne strid gjorde Eberhard 3. af Franken og Wichmann den ældre oprør mod Otto, og Thankmar slog sig sammen med dem. Thankmar og Eberhard erobrede Belecke ved floden Möhne. Wichmann den ældre forsonede sig medOtto, og oprøret i Sachsen brød sammen. Fæstningen Eresburg blev belejret og erobret af Ottos hær. Thankmar blev dræbt ved alteret i kirken. Eberhard blev for en tid holdt fængslet ved Hildesheim, men blev senere sluppet fri. Han gik siden i forbund med Henrik 1. af Bayern, Ottos yngre broder.

Otto den Store og Danmark
 7. juni 948: Der blev afholdt et kirkemøde i Tyskland og udnævnt bisper for bl.a. Ribe og Slesvig. I Århus blev Reginbrand indsat. Bispedømmerne var underlagt ærkebispen i Hamborg-Bremen.
 965: Kejseren udstedte privilegier, der fritog kirkens ejendom i "Danernes mark" for enhver skat eller tjenesteydelse. Det kunne han selvfølgelig sagtens gøre, da danskerne nok snarere betalte til Harald Blåtand, men udstedelsen antyder en aktiv tysk mission i Jylland.
 Ca. samme år: Harald indførte Kristendommen i Danmark jf. den Store Jellingsten, muligvis fordi Harald ved at konvertere til kristendommen fjernede den tyske kejsers motiv til at føre korstog mod Danmark.

Familie
Otto 1. var søn af Henrik Fuglefænger og hans kone Mathilda den Hellige af Sachsen. Han blev gift med den angelsaksiske Ædgyth (910-946), datter af Edward af Wessex, konge af England, og i 951 med Adelheid af Burgund (931-999), datter af Rudolf 2. af Burgund. Han havde følgende børn:
 Ludolf
 Liutgard, gift med Konrad den røde af Lothringen
 Mathilda, abbedissen af Quedlinburg
 Otto II

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SITZES, Jean Marie – Age 63 of Sarnia, passed away Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at her residence. Beloved wife of the late Oliver "Jarve" Sitzes (2015) for 39 years. Loving mother of Richard (Carly) Sitzes, Clement (Angela) Gosselin, Doreen (Greg "Tubby") Sitzes, Maureen (Mike) Ryan, Duane (Bonnie) Sitzes, Colin (Amanda) Sitzes. Cherished grandmother of Olivia, Damian and Jade Sitzes, Joshua and Michelle Ryan, Zachary and Heidi Sitzes as well as several great-grandchildren. Survived by her brothers Frank Lafond and sisters Aline Lafond, Nicole St. Andre, Danielle Hanson, Susan Jacklin, Denise Winterburn as well as several nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her parents Dan and Theresa Grandmont, brothers Andre, Bruno and Harvey Lafond. Jean loved to follow the Nascar races and did not like to be interrupted while the race was on television. Jean will be greatly missed by her Facebook friends.
Following her wishes cremation has taken place and there will be no visitation or service.
It's been 2 years now. I still miss you so much. I love you Grandma and always will.
Life was a long journey for Jean and now it's time to rest. I will always love you and miss you.
Jeannine was a person with a heart of gold, a unique lifestyle and way of life nobody but her could understand. May she find the peace she always was looking for. You will be missed Big Sis….
To Doreen and Greg, it has been my great pleasure to know each of you and to have worked with Doe. On behalf of your mom Jean , please accept my condolences and know that she rests in the arms off God .
To Doreen and Greg, it has been my great pleasure to know and work with Doe , please accept my condolences in behalf of you mom Jean .May she rest peacefully in the arms of God .
We were both stunned when we heard Jeannine had passed. We had just spoken to her the night before.
She had said to us that she was very, very tired and she sounded very, very tired. And then she hung up the phone.
great memories will help the whole family and friends get through this tough time. One day at a time. God bless.
Our hearts go out to your family at this time of loss. May there be comfort knowing that Grandma Jean is reunited with Jarve.


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Q: Detect duplicate records using Sequel and PostgreSQL I want to check to see if the email address that a new person uses when registering is a duplicate of an existing record.
Here is the code:
post '/signup' do
    email_address = params['email_address']
    username = params['username']
    password = params['password']
    @duplicate = DB[:users].select(:email_address).where('email_address = ?', email_address)
    if email_address = @duplicate
        redirect "/?msg=Email address already in use. Try again"
        return
    end
end

This blocks all attempts even when the email address is not a duplicate and redirects with the error message.
If I substitute @duplicate with duplicate (without the @ mark) then same result, all attempts blocked. If I use == instead of = then duplicate email addresses are ignored and no attempts are blocked.
I know the query:
DB[:users].select(:email_address).where('email_address = ?', email_address)

is correct because I have tested it. So I assume the problem lies with the construction of the if clause.

A: You  need add .first at the end of you query otherwise you will get an array.
After that you can test if @duplicate != nil

A: If you write email_address = @duplicate the code inside the if will be always excuted since the condition for the if expression is always true. Anything in Ruby except nil and false evaluates as true in boolean context.
If you write email_address == @duplicate the code inside the if will be never executed since you are trying to compare
a string (email_address) with an object of class Sequel::Postgres::Dataset (@duplicate).
A better approach could be
post '/signup' do
    # same code as yours...
    @duplicate = DB[:users].where(email_address: email_address).count
    unless @duplicate.zero?
      # redirect and return
    end
end

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Turns out talent and hard work might not be enough to succeed in this faux-docudrama based on the life of former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding, I, Tonya (2017). Written by Steven Rogers and directed by Craig Gillespie, I, Tonya stars Margot Robbie in the titular role. The film re-creates interviews with the principal characters involved in a controversial attack on fellow figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1994.
Gillespie is a veteran director with several films and television episodes under his belt, so it comes as no surprise I, Tonya is competently handled. Rogers is mainly known for writing romantic comedies, so this film is quite a departure from his usual repertoire. Like the directing, the writing is solid but the fact it's based on actual interviews and recordings probably made it easier.
Tonya Maxene Harding (Margot Robbie) grew up in poverty in Portland, Oregon. Her overbearing mother, LaVona (Allison Janney), pressured her into ice skating at a young age, eventually taking her out of school to pursue a career in the sport. In 1991, she became the first woman to successfully execute two triple axels in a single competition. She married Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) as a teen and their relationship quickly became abusive. Meanwhile, Gillooly's friend, Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser), appointed himself as her unofficial body guard.
Harding finished fourth in the 1992 Winter Olympics and went home to be a waitress, where Coach Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson) convinced her to begin training for the 1994 Winter Olympics. Gillooly, now her ex-husband, allegedly concocted a plan with Eckhardt to intimidate Harding's rival, Nancy Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver). Eckhardt hired two hapless thugs to smash Kerrigan's knee. The event became a media sensation, resulting in Harding being banned from competitive ice skating.
I, Tonya says surprisingly little about Nancy Kerrigan, though roughly half the film is devoted to the assault and its aftermath, and attempts to portray Tonya Harding as just as much a victim. It goes to great lengths to contrast Harding's hard-scrabble persona and background with Kerrigan's "girl-next door" image, suggesting the judges were biased against Harding because of her background. In real life, however, Nancy Kerrigan also grew up in poverty. Her father sometimes worked three jobs and drove a Zamboni at a local ice rink in exchange for her skating lessons.
Toxic relationships in this film mean motivations are always suspect. The characters use and abuse each other in pursuit of their self interest, despite insisting they're acting selflessly or out of love. To add to this moral ambiguity, Tonya Harding's character tells the audience there is no "truth," only what's true for each individual. Only there was truth; Nancy Kerrigan really was assaulted with a baton. Shawn Eckhardt really was delusional and a pathological liar. There were consequences for these realities that Tonya Harding had to live with for the rest of her life.
So there's constant tension between events re-created in the film and those that occurred in real life, something that characters call attention to by breaking the forth wall. This is a clever way to address a common problem with movies based on real people and events. Filmmakers frequently alter events or simply invent things in order to make a compelling story. I, Tonya tells its audience: this is true, according to a particular perspective.
I, Tonya is a clever and creative take on an infamous incident from the 1990s. I doubt many people under the age of 25 have ever heard of Tonya Harding or Nancy Kerrigan, but for people alive at the time, this incident was almost as sensational as the OJ Simpson trial. Actress Margot Robbie, who also produced the film, continues to impress and will hopefully be involved in more creative projects like this.
I remember being very interested in the story. It was all over the news.


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Things That Still Could Make Me A Wingnut
By Charles P. Pierce Published: Jul 24, 2014
I am a big fan of our government, which is all of us, doing good things to help us pursue happiness. I think Ronald Reagan's "government is the problem" is the worst thing an American president has said since Warren Harding said, "Where the chorus girls at?" You know where I stand. However, sometimes the government does something so bone-stupid that I find that, without knowing I was doing it, I was halfway through dialing the number for Ted Cruz's PAC. The latest example of this comes from fellow Esky scribe John H. Richardson, a man who actually has walked the environmental moonscape of northern Alberta.
It seems that the Department of Agriculture had the bright idea of introducing soybeans to Afghanistan as part of an effort to reconstruct that war-torn land and, maybe, get some of the farmers to stop growing poppies for heroin. This was enthusiastically (and unsurprisingly) supported by the American Soybean Association. They were so enthusiastic that their proposal neglected certain formalities, according to a reportreleased by the Special Inspector-General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The minor details were as follows:
Scientific research conducted for the UK Department for International Development between 2005 and 2008 concluded that soybeans were inappropriate for conditions and farming practices in northern Afghanistan, where the program was implemented by ASA; the ASA did not conduct feasibility studies prior to initiation of the project in 2010; the sustainability of the soybean processing facility is in serious doubt because Afghan farmers are not cultivating soybeans in sufficient quantity to make it economically viable, nor is there any significant demand for soybean products in Afghanistan, and the significant problems creating a market for soybean products in Afghanistan should have been expected since Afghans apparently have never grown or eaten soybeans before.
And you know what's coming, right?
USDA provided $34.4 million to ASA despite the lack of prior planning and analysis, and despite evidence that may have put the success of the program in doubt.
Yes, dear friends, despite the fact that few people in Afghanistan can tell a soybean from a goat gizzard, the USDA funded the program anyway. Think Progress has a nice precis on the whole debacle. But good for the American Soybean Association, the members of which must, at this point, be bigger fans of big government than I am. This is a great country.


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i8 Gallery (Reykjavik) – ARCO MADRID 2018
Iceland´s i8 Gallery at Arco Madrid 21 Feb 2018 – 25 Feb 2018, with works by Sigurdur Gudmundsson & Ragnar Kjartansson
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON
Sigurdur Gudmundsson (b. 1942) lives and works in Xiamen, China. He studied in the 1960s at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and the Academie '63 in Haarlem in The Netherlands. Mayor solo exhibitions include shows at the Baltic, Gateshead (2003), Malmö Konsthall (1992), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (1993) and several shows at the National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjavik Art Museum. Recent group shows include The Imminence of Poetics, Thirtieth Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil and Ends of the Earth – Land Art to 1974 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Many of Sigurdur´s works are in the collections of museums throughout Europe and he has made a number of public sculptures located in the Nordic Countries and Central Europe.
Gudmundsson's idiosyncratic work is difficult to separate from the energetic and witty artist himself. His art has been based on a non-hierarchical flow between photographic works, sculptures, performances and ´visual poems´. His photo-works from the seventies, often collectively referred to as Situations are characterized by playfulness and humor. They represent human existence and classic ideas of philosophy and art through one man's interactions with his surroundings. Many of these pieces such as Event (1975), Dancing Horizon (1977), and Mountain (1980–82) – have become icons of contemporary European art history. They have been showcased in numerous international exhibitions, and many of them can be found in public collections in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere.
In his diverse and prolific career Gudmundsson has persistently applied new methods and ideas by way of unaffected and personal approach. In addition to his art practice Sigurdur has also published three novels.
Ragnar Kjartansson (RAG-ner kuh-YART-un-sun) (born 1976 in Reykjavík) is a contemporary Icelandic artist who engages multiple artistic mediums throughout his performative practice. The artist's video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings incorporate the history of film, music, visual culture, and literature. His works are connected through their pathos and humor, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theater. Kjartansson's use of durational, repetitive performance to harness collective emotion is a hallmark of his practice and recurs throughout his work. Ragnar Kjartansson, lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland. He studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
Kjartansson has exhibited widely around Europe and the US, most recently at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Center in Washington DC and at The Barbican Centre, London.
Solo exhibition include in the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington; the New Museum, New York and at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Perth,The Visitors, Hangar Bicaocca, Milano (2013); A Lot of Sorrow – a six-hour performance with the band The National, MoMA's PS1, New York (2013); The Visitors, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2012); Song, Carnegie Museum of Art (2011) – touring to MOCA North Miami and to ICA Boston (2012); Take Me Here by the Dishwasher, the Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria (2011); Endless Longing, Eternal Return, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (2011).
Group exhibitions featuring major works by Kjartansson include the 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace curated by Massimiliano Gioni; Performa 11, New York (2011) where his 12-hour performance Bliss was awarded the Malcolm McLaren Award; Icelandic Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); the 2nd Turin Triennial, Italy (2008); Manifesta 8, Italy (2008) and the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland (2012, 2008, 2005, 2004). In 2015 his work S.S. Hangover was featured at the Creative Time project Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park, New York.
Kjartansson draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature finds its way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging become key tools in the artist's attempt to convey sincere emotion and offering a genuine experience to the audience. Kjartansson's playful work is full of unique moments where a conflict of the dramatic and the banal culminates in a memorable way.
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This is a Louis Vuitton Custom Monogramed Boot Case with Original Key and Dust Bag. The pattern is officially knowns as the Louis Vuitton Damier Ebene Cavnvas, and it was actually created in 1888, before the very recognizable monogram pattern. The direct translation from French to English of "Damier" is "Checker Board." This Damier pattern in particular is the "Red Damier" and it is a rare find as most people know this pattern to be in shades of brown.
The monogram R.S. can be seen on both the right and left sides of the boot case, representing the original owners initials. The outer brass lock and pins is accented nicely with the black trim and handles.
The innards of the boot case reveal the original removable shelf with colored lifting handles, below is the custom boot display tray.
Not only does this boot case have the original key and dust bag, it also has a Zinc bottom! This rare element was very much intentional in its production, thus in affect creating a waterproof sealed bottom of the boot case.


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AER campaign kicks off
by Aerotech News • March 4, 2016 2:33 pm - Updated March 3, 2016 2:38 pm
The Army Emergency Relief fundraising campaign has kicked-off at Fort Irwin and will go through May 15.
The Army-wide campaign takes place annually and aims to garner contributions for the program that helps Soldiers and their families with financial challenges. This year's theme is "Never Leave a Soldier in Need."
According to an AER news release, AER has made significant changes to meet the needs of today's Army, adding new categories of assistance, expediting the assistance process and increasing grants by 30 percent.
Last September, AER made a policy change allowing all Soldiers, regardless of rank, direct access to AER assistance.
"'Never Leaving a Soldier in Need' is in keeping with the Army's core values," said AER's director, retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Foley. "Whether the need is money for a Soldier's emergency leave, new brakes for the family car or to cover the initial rent deposit on a new apartment, AER is there! To maintain this level of assistance today, donations from Soldiers, active and retired, are essential to ensure the legacy of Soldiers helping Soldiers."
Army Emergency Relief is a private non-profit organization and since it was founded in 1942, it has provided more than $1.7 billion to more than 3.6 million Soldiers and Families. Last year AER provided more than $71 million in assistance to nearly 47,000 Soldiers and Families, which includes $9 million for 4,102 scholarships to military spouses and children.
Soldiers needing AER assistance can contact their unit chain of command or call the Fort Irwin AER office at 380-3513. Additional information is available at www.aerhq.org.
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You know HDR is a verb, right? I didn't realize until WordPress renamed my link that I'd used that title before (see that post here). Which do you like most? The non-HDR version (above) or the HDR version (below)? There's no right answer of course but my favorite is the non-HDR image. I'd post them side-by-side but WordPress is giving me formatting fits…will update the post if I ever figure it out.
While in the Seattle area for a wedding last month my son and I went on a short photowalk in the little town of Snohomish. Snohomish is one of those cutesy towns with shops for tourists and all that. That morning it was just wet, dreary, and cold — somewhere in the high 30s with a stiff breeze to go along with it. The wet and dreary thing makes for decent HDR conditions typically but the cold I could have done without, especially having had temps in the low 80s when we left Austin the afternoon before.
On our walk I grabbed some brackets of these stairs for a semi-abstract image. It's sort of urbex but maybe I'd call it "garden urbex" with all the moss growing (the stairs were surrounded by plants and flowers too). The dynamic range frankly wasn't very high but as I've posted before one can get cool images just going through the tonemapping process. Last night I decided to process this scene but as I inspected the brackets I determined that using a single exposure would give me the image I wanted. Part of that decision was driven by the fact that I've gone through a few of David Nightingale's (chromasia) tutorials and was itching to try my hand at some things. On a whim I took 5 exposures and did an HDR for comparison. It's not an entirely fair comparison though as I only spent a quick 5 minutes tweaking the Photomatix output. However, I wasn't really interested in trying to match the single exposure I processed. Rather, I purposely processed it without even looking at the single image so that I would rethink everything as I went through the process again (albeit very quickly).
Some details on the processing of the single-exposure image (shown at the top of the post): I began with the intent of going black and white but as I played with the channel mixer I ran across some color settings I liked. I ended up using -26 red, +129 green, and -7 blue. I used various curves layers to tweak parts of the image to taste (see the screenshot showing the masks below). All curves were simply adjusted on the RGB channel. This image was ripe for some individual color adjustments but I only have so much time for all this photo stuff.
A quick rundown on the curves layers: the darken and s-curve layers were blended in normal mode and the s-curve went a little stronger on the highlights side. The lighten and "curves 1" (forgot to rename it) were in luminosity mode and as you see from the masks, targeted very specific parts of the image. Curves 1 was a very strong s-curve to bring out the contrast in the beam along the steps. "Lighten" brought out a bit of detail in the wet shadows in the nooks and crannies. I topped things off with a vibrance adjustment of +14 (the HDR image had a +25 adjustment b/c the curves layers I used didn't bring nearly as much color as in the other image).
Notice that the original (below) has a piece of peeled paint on the bottom step. I cloned that out since it interrupted the edge of the frame. It fit with the image but was just in the wrong place. That's the only cloning I did.
Cropping was difficult. Not quite happy with it but I was less happy with the 17 other ways I tried.


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SILVERspac Inc. Announces the Separate Trading of Class A Ordinary Shares and Redeemable Warrants Commencing Nov 1, 2021
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October 29, 2021, 20:30 GMT
SILVERSPAC, Inc (NASDAQ:Slvru)
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- SILVERspac Inc. (the "Company") today announced that, commencing November 1, 2021, holders of the units sold in the Company's initial public offering of 25,000,000 units may elect to separately trade the Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants included in the units. Those units not separated will continue to trade on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (the "Nasdaq") under the symbol "SLVRU," and the Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants that are separated will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbols "SLVR" and "SLVRW," respectively. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade. Holders of units will need to have their brokers contact Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the Company's transfer agent, in order to separate the units into Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants.
The Company is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The Company intends to concentrate its efforts in identifying businesses that provide technology and innovation solutions to the real estate and financial services industries and the industries supporting them. The Company also intends to concentrate on identifying enterprise technology companies that sell into the real estate and financial services sectors.
The units were initially offered by the Company in an underwritten offering. Goldman Sachs & Co LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.
The offering was made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained for free from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") website at www.sec.gov or by contacting Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Telephone: 1-866-471-2526, Facsimile: 212-902-9316, Email: Prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Attn: Prospectus Department, c/o Broadbridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Telephone: 1-800-831-9146.
A registration statement relating to the securities was declared effective by the SEC on September 9, 2021. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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Tal Kerret, Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, Tal@SILVERspac.com
Charles Federman, Chief Executive Officer, Charlie@SILVERspac.com
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Listen to movie soundtrack
Here's the track list of the soundtrack of Life As We Know It, the upcoming comedy movie written and starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel:
Life As We Know It Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1. "You Know I'm No Good" – Amy Winehouse
2. "You and Me" – Beggars
3. "Your Touch" – The Black Keys
4. "Tidal Wave" – Josh Kelley
5. "Love Is Endless" – MoZella
6 . "Something in Common" – Free Energy
7. "Pump It Up" – The HotRats
8. "Three More Days" – Ray LaMontagne
9. "For You Now" – Bruno Mars
10. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" – Roberta Flack
11. "Sweet Child O' Mine" – Taken by Trees
Thanks to Amazon we may check the songs of the movie soundtrack of Life As We Know it:
A few official music videos are available on youtube:
Life As We Know It – "You Know I'm No Good" – Amy Winehouse
Life As We Know It – "You and Me" by Beggars
Life As We Know It – "Your Touch" by The Black Keys
Life As We Know It – "Love Is Endless" by MoZella
Life As We Know It – "Something in Common" – Free Energy
Some of the songs are available on Deezer:
What's your favorite song on the soundtrack of Life As We Know It?
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Beggars, Bruno Mars, Free Energy, Josh Kelley, Life As We know It, MoZella, Ray LaMontagne, Roberta Flack, Taken by Trees, The Black Keys, The HotRats
You may check below the full track list of the soundtrack of the Social Network aka the Facebook movie:
Social Network Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Original Score created by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
1. Hand Covers Bruise
2. In Motion
3. A Familiar Taste
4. It Catches Up With You
5. Intriguing Possibilities
6. Painted Sun in Abstract
7. 3:14 Every Night
8. Pieces Form the Whole
9. Carbon Prevails
10. Eventually We Find Our Way
11. Penetration
12. In the Hall of the Mountain King
13. On We March
14. Magnetic
15. Almost Home
16. Hand Covers Bruise (reprise)
17. Complications with Optimistic Outcome
18. The Gentle Hum of Anxiety
19. Soft Trees Break the Fall
You may listen to the songs of the Social Network soundtrack below:
The soundtrack to David Fincher's The Social Network is damned good!
Tags: Atticus Ross, Social Network, Trent Reznor
Legend of the Guardians
Legend of the Guardians, Zack Snyder's movie adaptation of The Owls Of Ga'hoole is now in theaters, so let's check the track list of the soundtrack of Legend of the Guardians:
Legend of the Guardians Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1. To The Sky – Owl City
2. Flight Home (The Guardian Theme) – David Hirschfelder
3. Taken To St Aggeles – David Hirschfelder
4. Welcome To The Pellatorium – David Hirschfelder
5. A Long Way To The Guardians – David Hirschfelder
6. You Know We're Flying – David Hirschfelder
7. A Friend Or Two – David Hirschfelder
8. The Boy Was Right – David Hirschfelder
9. Sharpen The Battle Claws – David Hirschfelder
10. Follow The Whale's Fin – David Hirschfelder
11. Into Battle – David Hirschfelder
12. Hello Brother – David Hirschfelder
13. My Soldiers My Sons – David Hirschfelder
14. More Baggy Wrinkles – David Hirschfelder
You may listen below to the songs of the soundtrack of Legend of the Guardians:
And you may enjoy below the music video of the theme song of Legend of the Guardians:
Legend of the Guardians Theme Song – "To The Sky" by Owl City
The soundtrack of Legend of the Guardians is as magic as the film!
Tags: David Hirschfelder, Legend of the Guardians, Owl City
Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps
You may check below the track list of the soundtrack of Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps Soundtrack, the upcoming drama movie directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf and Carey Mulligan:
Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps Soundtrack
1. Prison – Craig Armstrong
2. Home – David Byrne and Brian Eno
3. Life is Long – David Byrne and Brian Eno
4. Sleeping Up – David Byrne
5. Strange Overtones – David Byrne and Brian Eno
6. Money – Craig Armstrong
7. My Big Nurse – David Byrne and Brian Eno
8. Helicopter Reveal – Craig Armstrong
9. Tiny Apocalypse – David Byrne
10. Lazy – David Byrne
11. I Feel My Stuff – David Byrne and Brian Eno
12. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) – Talking Heads
Let's listen to the songs of the soundtrack of Wall Street Money Never Sleeps:
What do you think of this collection of songs selected for the soundtrack of Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps?
Tags: Brian Eno, Craig Armstrong, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Wall Street 2
Resident Evil 4 Afterlife
Here's the track list of the soundtrack of the Resident Evil 4 Afterlife, the latest Resident Evil movie starring Milla Jovovich:
Resident Evil 4 Afterlife Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music composed by TomAndAndy
1. Tokyo
2. Umbrella
5. Twins
6. Exit
7. Far
8. Flying
9. Memory
10. Los Angeles
11. Binoculars
12. Prison
14. Hatchet
15. Axe Man
16. Arcadia
17. Up
18. Party
19. Promise
20. Resident Evil Suite
Let's listen to the songs of the soundtrack of Resident Evil 4 Afterlife below:
Tomandandy – "Corridor"
A few words from the duo TomAndAndy about the soundtrack of Resident Evil 4 Afterlife:
"Our mission for the RESIDENT EVIL AFTERLIFE score was to reinvent the sound of the RESIDENT EVIL saga. At every turn, director Paul W. S. Anderson encouraged us to avoid cliché. He encouraged us to explore the edges of noise and modern sound synthesis. This was an amazing gift."
TomAndAndy
To better appreciate the soundtrack of Resident Evil 4 turn the volume up!
Tags: Resident Evil 4 Afterlife
The music of the upcoming sword-and-sandal movie Centurion was composed and arranged by Ilan Eshkeri. Let's check the track list of the soundtrack of Centurion:
Centurion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music composed and arranged by Ilan Eshkeri
1. Centurion
2. Fort Attack
3. The Ninth Ride Out
4. Quintus Escapes
5. Arianne
6. The Ninth March On
7. The General Falls
8. On the Run
9. The Village
10. Funeral
11. She Wolf
12. A Sacred Rite
13. We Are the Prey
14. Waterfall
15. Necromancer
17. Battle At the Fort
18. Quintus Returns
19. Fate of the Ninth
Here below you may listen and download the songs of the soundtrack of the movie Centurion:
The songs of the soundtrack of Centurion are strong and powerful!
Tags: Centurion, Ilan Eshkeri
Switch Soundtrack
Here's the track list of the soundtrack of the Switch, the upcoming comedy movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, it features a quirky mix of music:
The Switch Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1 . "Opening Titles" (Score) – Composed by Alex Wurman
2 . "Instant Replay" – Dan Hartman
3 . "Freakshow On The Dance Floor" – Bar-Kays
4 . "I Can't Wait" – Nu Shooz
5 . "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)" – Sunrider
6 . "Here Comes The Sun" – Fat Larry's Band
7 . "Pushin' On" – The Quantic Soul Orchestra feat. Alice Russell
8 . "Little L" – Jamiroquai
9 . "Lice" (Score) – Composed by Alex Wurman
1 0 ."Open Your Heart" – Lavender Diamond
1 1 ."Sea Green, See Blue" – Jaymay
1 2 ."Bluebird Of Happiness" – Mojave 3
1 3 ."All The Beautiful Things" – Eels
1 4 ."Numbered Days" – Eels
1 5 ."Lovers' Carvings" – Bibio
You may listen to the songs of the soundtrack of the Switch below:
Love that song by Jamiroquai.
Tags: Alex Wurman, Alice Russell, Bar-Kays, Bibio, Eels, Fat Larry's Band, Jamiroquai, Lavender Diamond, Mojave 3, Nu Shooz, Sunrider, Switch, The Quantic Soul Orchestra
Check below the track list of the soundtrack of The Expendables, the latest action movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li:
The Expendables Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music by Brian Tyler
1. The Expendables
2. Aerial
3. Ravens And Skulls
4. Lee And Lacy
5. Massive
6. The Gulf Of Adem
7. Lifeline
9. Royal Rumble
10. Scanning The Enemy
11. The Contact
12. Surveillance
13. Warriors
14. Trinity
15. Waterboard
16. Losing His Mind
17. Take Your Money
18. Giant With A Shotgun
19. Time To Leave
20. Mayhem And Finale
You may listen and download the songs of the soundtrack of The Expendables below:
I definitely recommend to listen to the theme song of the Expendables.
Tags: Brian Tyler, The Expendables
Step Up 3
We've got our hands on the track list of the soundtrack of Step Up 3, the upcoming street dance movie directed by Jon Chu. The album features tracks from a number of today's top artists, including Trey Songz, Flo Rida, and Laza Morgan:
Step Up 3D Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1. Club Can't Handle Me – Flo Rida (Feat. David Guetta)
2. My Own Step – Roscoe Dash & T-Pain (Feat. Fabo)
3. This Instant – Sofia Fresh (Feat. T-Pain)
4. Already Taken – Trey Songz
5. This Girl – Laza
6. Fancy Footwork – Chromeo
7. Beggin' – MadCon
8. Up – Jessie McCartney
9. Bust Your Windows – Jazmine Sullivan
10. I Can Be A Freak – Estelle
11. Whatchadoin' – NASA
12. Tear Da Roof Off – Busta Rhymes
13. Move If You Wanna – Mims
14. Shawty Got Moves – Get Cool
15. Irresistible – Wisin y Yandel
16. Let Me C It – Get Cool (Feat. Petey Pablo)
Listen below to the songs of the soundtrack of Step Up 3D:
I went to youtube and found the theme song of Step Up 3 and a few more official music videos of the soundtrack of Step Up 3:
Flo Rida – Club Can't Handle Me ft. David Guetta – Step Up 3D Official Music Video
My Own Step (Theme From Step Up 3D)
Sophia Fresh – This Instant [Step Up 3D]
Trey Songz – Already Taken [Step Up 3D]
Laza Morgan – This Girl
Fancy Footwork – Chromeo
Madcon – Beggin
Jazmine Sullivan – Bust Your Windows
Estelle – Freak (Feat. Kardinal Offishall)
N.A.S.A. – "Whachadoin?" (feat. M.I.A., Spank Rock, Santogold, & Nick Zinner)
Busta Rhymes – Tear Da Roof Off
MIMS – Move (If You Wanna)
Wisin & Yandel – Irresistible [Step Up 3D]
I now feel like I want to join dancers and singers on the dance floor! Love the soundtrack of Step Up 3, it's so powerful!
By the way if you're looking for that catchy techno/dance song from the new trailer of Step Up 3D, it's the song "Squeeze It" by DJ Frank E ft. Dada Life & Tiesto, sadly it's not on the soundtrack, but it's out there on youtube:
Squeeze It by DJ Frank E ft. Dada Life & Tiesto – Step Up 3D
Tags: Busta Rhymes, Chromeo, David Guetta, Estelle, Get Cool, Jessie McCartney, Laza, MadCon, Mims, NASA, Roscoe Dash, Sofia Fresh, Step Up 3D, T-Pain, Trey Songz, Wisin y Yandel
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Here's the track list of the soundtrack of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, the upcoming fantasy movie directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. The music of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is composed by Trevor Rabin:
Sorcerer's Apprentice Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music composed by Trevor Rabin
01. Sorcerer's Apprentice
02. Story of the Prime Merlinian
03. Note Chase
04. Dave Revives Balthazar
05. Classroom
06. The Urn
07. The Grimhold
08. Morgana Fight
09. The Ring
10. Walk in the Rain
11. Merlin Circle
12. Dave Has Doubts
13. Becky and Dave on Rooftop
14. Car Chase
15. Seeing Veronica
16. Story of Veronica
17. Horvath Made Off With the Grimhold
18. Kiss from Becky
19. Bull Fight
20. Balthazar Saves Veronica
21. Sorcerer's Apprentice Suite
22. Fantasia Original Demo
You may listen to the soundtrack of the Sorcerer's Apprentice below:
There's also a Sorcerer's Apprentice theme song by One Republic, it's titled Secret. It's not on the soundtrack but you may watch the music video below:
Sorcerer's Apprentice – Secret by One Republic
After listening to the soundtrack of the Sorcerer's Apprentice I feel like applying to become a sorcerer myself!
Tags: Sorcerer's Apprentice, Trevor Rabin
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I expect the Microsoft Kinect to be partnered up with tonnes of digital billboards and installations this year, and here is just one example to help kick it all off. Autism Speaks has created a Kinect powered digital billboard featuring a life size girl who avoids eye contact no matter how hard you try.
The Kinect in this instance is used to track the head movements of the people looking into the digital billboard and continually position the child's head and movements to avoid eye contact. Here the billboard is used at some kind of controlled event, but with a little extra crafting, it would be perfect to be installed just about anywhere. BTW the ad is getting some heat on YouTube!
Aden, I normally really like your posts but this post troubles me somewhat. I tend to agree with the 'heat' you mention on Youtube. Seems a terrible waste of resources to put this digital billboard together but I imagine BBDO would be doing this as a pro bono exercise. Seems like Corporate Responsibility in the wrong hands (those of advertising executives) who completely miss the point on most occasions when dealing with this market segment. When the voiceover says "Avoiding eye contact could be a sign of autism," it reminds me of something the gents on Southpark might say.
Sorry but this one is way off the mark.
Yeah, this post is a little different, I'm posting from the interaction point of view, rather than this being a great ad (per say)… And yes, the heat on YouTube is probably justified… Wouldn't you think?
I definitely think it's justified. I do feel sorry for the management at Autism Speaks as the organisation has no doubt spent years trying to educate the community on autism and its complexity. They've been led down the garden path on this one and may need to consider strategies on how to repair the damage. As for the interactive element, it's certainly effective. BTW, anything interesting on corporate responsibility being structured digitally in a meaningful way is always interesting for us readers! Thanks!


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Le colonel William Light ( - ) est un officier de l'armée britannique et le premier géomètre en chef de l'Australie-Méridionale alors que cet état était une nouvelle colonie britannique. Il est célèbre pour le choix du site de la capitale de la colonie, Adélaïde et la conception de l'aménagement de la ville.

Light est né à , au Siam (maintenant en Malaisie) et a grandi à Penang jusqu'à l'âge de six ans, quand il fut envoyé en Angleterre pour son éducation scolaire. Il est un fils illégitime du capitaine , le surintendant de Penang, et de Martina Rozells, une métisse de portugais ou de français, et de Siamois ou de malais. Light est mort de tuberculose à Adélaïde.

Références

 "Light, William", Angus & Robertson concise Australian encyclopaedia (1983),
 Elizabeth Kwan Living in South Australia: A Social History Volume 1: From Before 1836 to 1914 (1987)
 Geoffrey Dutton, Founder of a City : the life of Colonel William Light, first Surveyor- General of the colony of South Australia  (1960) Cheshire. Subsequent republications: Rigby, 1971 and 1984; and as Colonel William Light : founder of a city (1991) Melbourne University Press.

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Naissance en avril 1786
Décès en octobre 1839
Personnalité australienne du XIXe siècle
Militaire britannique du XIXe siècle
Mort de la tuberculose
Décès à 53 ans
Fondateur de ville

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Here's the mp3 of the Humanus conference call from April 5; it runs 2 hours 5 minutes.
Wow, so many preparations and no results! Those darn bank delays last November! What a relief they were released on November 30th! Not!!
The bond redemptions were to be a source of funding for projects.


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#CookforSyria, the charity campaign founded in 2016 by social media influencer Clerkenwell Boy, PR company founder Gemma Bell, and SUITCASE Magazine CEO and founder Serena Guen, is back this November. Loads of London's best restaurants have created special dishes for the event, and each time a dish is sold, £2 goes to Unicef UK's Children of Syria Fund. The campaign has raised more than £350,000 so far.
These are the Syrian-inspired dishes you really need to try this November, with more to be announced in the coming week.
Lyle's – Raw mutton, roast mutton skin, pomegranate, yoghurt, sumac, Aleppo chilli and freekeh.
#CookforSyria will also be hosting its second #BakeForSyria event with Lily Vanilli, on 18th November at Old Spitalfields Market, from 11am to 4pm. There will be a raffle on the day in aid of Unicef's appeal for the children of Syria and some of the country's best bakers will be there, including Helen Goh and Yotam Ottolenghi, Fattie's Bakery, Dominique Ansel and Justin Gellatly.


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Home/News Releases/Over $11,000 In Stolen Merchandise Recovered During Project Targeting Downtown Retail Theft
Over $11,000 In Stolen Merchandise Recovered During Project Targeting Downtown Retail Theft
File: 23-1945
Victoria, BC – Last week, officers from VicPD's Patrol division conducted a retail theft project which resulted in eight arrests and the recovery of over $11,000 in stolen merchandise.
Between January 17 and January 20, 2023 Patrol officers targeted shoplifters at a busy downtown retailer. Over the approximately 13-hour project, officers arrested eight people for theft under $5,000 and recovered over $11,000 in stolen merchandise. The individual incidents of theft ranged from $477 to $3,200. One suspect was already on conditions not to be in the area from a previous arrest for shoplifting at the same retailer less than three weeks earlier.
VicPD officers conducted a similar retail theft project in December 2022 where they made 17 arrests and recovered approximately $5,000 in stolen merchandise during the three-day project. These projects were in response to continued concerns from retailers and security staff about brazen thefts and safety concerns related to shoplifting.


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Le Langhe sono un territorio o sub-area geografica del basso Piemonte, situato tra le province di Cuneo e Asti costituito da un esteso sistema collinare, delimitato dal corso dei fiumi Tànaro, Belbo, Bòrmida di Millesimo e Bòrmida di Spigno e confinante con l'Astesana, il Monferrato (compreso il primo tratto della Bormida propriamente detta) e il Roero.

Si suddividono in:

paesi delle Langhe a bassa quota: zona con quote genericamente inferiori ai 600 m; zona di vini e tartufo (rinomato il bianco di Alba).
paesi delle Langhe ad alta quota: zona con quote fino agli 896 m (Mombarcaro); dominano i boschi e la coltivazione della pregiata varietà di nocciole "tonda gentile delle Langhe".
Langa Astigiana: zona nel sud della provincia di Asti, con un picco di 851 m nel comune di Seròle.

Il 22 giugno 2014, durante la 38ª sessione del comitato UNESCO a Doha, le Langhe sono state ufficialmente incluse, assieme a Roero e Monferrato, nella lista dei beni del Patrimonio dell'Umanità.

Etimologia del nome
L'ètimo del nome langhe (in piemontese indica proprio la collina) è incerto.

Dante Olivieri aveva proposto un accostamento alla voce lombarda lanca, poi ha aderito alla proposta di Giulia Petracco Sicardi che, partendo dall'etnico ligure Langates, ha ricavato una base riferita alla posizione del castello o al castello stesso, dove vivevano queste popolazioni.

Nino Lamboglia invece propende per un accostamento a una base non indoeuropea lanka, che si riscontra anche in Langobriga (città iberica), dal probabile significato di "conca, avvallamento" e, da questo, "zona collinare". Un documento del X secolo parla di Langarum.

Nel 1300, nella Cronica Imaginis Mundi, di Iacopo d'Acqui, c'è scritto «in muntibus Albe, ubi dicitur Langhe».

Geologia

Oligocene: nell'epoca in cui compaiono le prime scimmie antropomorfe, il Piemonte, come tutta la Pianura padana, è coperto dal mare; questo "bacino terziario piemontese" confina, a sud, con le Alpi Marittime e con il basamento di quello che sarà l'Appennino.

In particolare, è probabile che l'origine dell'Appennino ligure e dei sistemi collinari a esso connessi (le Langhe, quindi), sia collegato al fenomeno dello sfenocasma ligure, o sardo-corso: rotazione avente per perno il Golfo di Genova e responsabile dell'allontanamento, dalle coste provenzali, di Corsica e Sardegna.

Miocene: il piano più antico del Miocene è l'Aquitaniano, cui appartengono i paesi più ad alta quota delle Langhe.

Alla fine del Miocene, il Mediterraneo è un mare praticamente isolato dall'Atlantico; l'evaporazione, non compensata dai riflussi atlantici, porta alla formazione di notevoli banchi evaporitici (gessi) e all'emersione delle basse colline di Langhe e Monferrato.

Nei gessi presenti fra Cherasco, Verduno, Guarene, Castagnito, Magliano, si trovano banchi di marne, ricche di fossili marini e vegetali, prova di un clima praticamente tropicale.

Pliocene (5 Ma): una nuova trasgressione marina, dovuta a movimenti separatori presso Gibilterra, risommerge il Piemonte, con esclusione proprio di Langhe e Monferrato, separati dal Bacino Pliocenico Astigiano, braccio di mare, poco profondo, avente come limite occidentale il golfo di Cuneo.

Le sabbie plioceniche restituiscono scheletri di mammiferi sia marini che terrestri.

Il Pliocene segna la transizione fra Era Terziaria e Era Quaternaria;, in questo periodo si ha la definitiva scomparsa del "mare Piemontese", che lascia il posto a una vasta pianura, per molto tempo paludosa, in cui, a seconda delle oscillazioni climatiche, trovano il loro habitat elefanti, cervi, mammut, iene, ghepardi.

Quaternario: le progressive spinte, verso nord, del continente africano provocano il lento sollevamento del territorio, disegnando gli attuali sistemi collinari; il raffreddamento del clima porta all'alternanza di periodi aridi e periodi umidi nel corso dell'anno.

Ormai siamo nella nostra era; l'ultimo grande contributo geologico è dato dalle glaciazioni, rimodellanti la struttura di Alpi e Prealpi, con le loro morene.

La bassa altitudine delle Langhe non ha consentito l'avanzata dei ghiacciai, ma sono presenti accumuli di löss, limo argilloso, prodotto da fenomeni di erosione, trasportato a grandi distanze da venti impetuosi, che spazzavano la pianura.

Storia

Il neolitico arriva nel corso del V millennio a.C. Nell'età del ferro dominano le tribù Liguri degli Epanteri e degli Stazielli, che, in seguito alle migrazioni galliche, formano la cultura celtoligure. Furono sottomessi dai romani nel 179 a.C., ma solo con Augusto si può parlare di un vero processo di romanizzazione. Durante il periodo carolingio fanno parte della Marca Aleramica, il cui primo titolare, Aleramo, contribuì a liberare Piemonte e Liguria di Ponente dai pirati musulmani.

Alcuni territori rimasero in diretto possesso degli Aleramici, sotto l'autorità del Senato di Milano, fino al '700, quando passarono al Ducato di Savoia, col trattato di Utrecht (1713) al termine della guerra di successione spagnola. Tra '800 e inizio '900 le Langhe conobbero un forte degrado e un'estrema povertà (raccontata dalle testimonianze raccolte da Nuto Revelli ne Il mondo dei vinti), seguito da un progressivo spopolamento a favore delle città industriali (soprattutto Torino e Savona).

Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, le Langhe furono teatro della lotta di Resistenza, descritta nei romanzi dell'albese Beppe Fenoglio. Nel corso degli anni '90 un rinnovato interesse per il mondo agreste ha portato alla ristrutturazione (spesso operata da cittadini non italiani) di cascine e castelli, riconvertiti in agriturismi, bed and breakfast e musei etnografici, nonché all'investimento in produzioni agricole d'eccellenza e all'interesse per il turismo. Tutto ciò ha tramutato le Langhe in una zona economicamente competitiva e benestante.

Dialetto

Nelle Langhe si parla un dialetto del piemontese, molto particolare, ricco di influssi liguri e di arcaismi: il langarolo (in piemontese langareul o langhèt).

Varianti fonetiche dal piemontese standard

Passaggio 'a' → 'o' quando tonica (it. muro; piem. muraja; lang. muròja).

Passaggio (saltuario) 's' → 'sc' come in ligure anziché in 's' o 's-c' come in piemontese (it. uscire, piem. seurte, lang. scieurte).

Rotacismo (saltuario) della 'l' che diventa una specie di 'r' moscia (it. il cane, lang. r can, piem. el can).

Passaggio 'c' morbida → 'z' (toponimo Cerretto, piem. Sreij, lang. Zré; la città di Ceva diventa Zeva; it. di qua, piem. ed sà, lang. ed zà).

Il latino 'ct', che in italiano diventa 'tt' (noctem = notte), in piemontese standard diventa 'it' (notte = neuit) mentre nelle Langhe diventa 'cc' (notte = neucc, latte = lacc, letto = lecc).

In alcune zone più ad alta quota la 'u' (sempre pronunciato alla francese) e 'i' cambiano leggermente pronuncia e il piemontesissimo Turin (Torino) diventa Tirein.

 Influenze tipicamente liguri

Solo in pochi paesi di più alta quota delle Langhe il latino 'pl'e 'bl'diventa 'cc' e 'gg' (plovere = cieuve; blancum = gianc).

Accanto all'affermazione tipica piemontese 'é, òi', compare anche il ligurissimo sci.

Il suono 'g' di 'giocare' può diventare 'z' (giogo = zou, gioco = zeugh, già = zà, ma giovane rimane giovo, pronunciato giu-u).

 Termini particolari

Al tipico piemontese guardé, vardé (guardare), si sostituisce beiché, (lo si trova anche in lingua occitana, beicar).

Al tipico piemontese an dovi (dove), si sostituisce a landa.

Sebbene presente in piemontese standard, nelle Langhe sopravvive con maggior disinvoltura la negazione pa anziché nen (i sai pa = non so), l'originale interrogativa invertita piemontese (veus-ti? = vuoi?) e il pronome verbale, sebbene diverso alla terza persona singolare (it. lui viene, piem. chiel a ven, lang. chiel o ven)..

Nonostante queste e molte altre differenze di suoni e di termini, la struttura sintattica e grammaticale del langarolo rimane all'interno della koinè piemontese, discostandosi notevolmente da quella ligure.Esempio (proverbio): S'o sraina 'd neucc, 'r bel teimp o dura paid 'd un euv cheucc.

(Se si rasserena di notte il bel tempo dura come un uovo cotto).

 Flora e fauna
Nella zona più alta sopravvive, in numero sempre più ridotto, il pino silvestre (commercialmente noto come Pino di Scozia o di Svezia), autentico "fossile vivente" della vegetazione dell'ultimo periodo glaciale.

 Economia e prodotti tipici

Oltre che per lo sviluppo del settore terziario, la zona si distingue per la sua poliforme produzione enogastronomica.

Le Langhe sono anzitutto un importante centro di viticoltura e vinificazione, dove spiccano numerose varietà di vino (in larga parte soggette a certificazioni DOC e DOCG), quali Barolo, Nebbiolo, Barbaresco, Dolcetto d'Alba, Dolcetto di Dogliani, Barbera d'Alba, Pelaverga di Verduno.

Altrettanto celebre è il tartufo bianco di Alba, in onore del quale ogni anno vi si tiene una fiera internazionale.

Capillarmente diffusa è altresì la coltivazione della nocciola Tonda Gentile delle Langhe.

Numerosi sono anche i formaggi sottoposti a tutela DOP, primi fra tutti le Robiole di Roccaverano e di Murazzano.

La varietà sopra descritta ha favorito negli anni lo sviluppo del turismo enogastronomico.

 Clima
Nella bassa delle Langhe il clima è padano, temperato nelle temperature massime sui rilievi.

Nella pianura di Alba non sono rare temperature estive massime superiori ai 30°.

Nella parte alta delle Langhe il clima può definirsi appenninico, con influssi padani.

Le estati sono generalmente più fresche e ventilate che nella zona più bassa delle Langhe (media di luglio intorno ai 20°, sui rilievi); gli inverni sono freddi, nelle valli (sono frequenti minime di −5/−10°) e più miti sui colli (media delle minime intorno agli 0°).

Sono molto frequenti le inversioni termiche, a causa della differenza di insolazione.

Le precipitazioni annue variano dai circa 800 mm. di Alba ai 1.100 dello spartiacque appenninico.

Il regime pluviometrico è sub-litoraneo, con un minimo principale estivo (luglio) e uno secondario invernale; il massimo assoluto è autunnale; le precipitazioni primaverili tendono a essere molto variabili, negli anni.

Tra giugno e luglio, specie dopo una primavera avara, è frequente il rischio di aridità (accentuata anche dal clima secco e ventilato).

Nel trimestre estivo è garantita una precipitazione media di circa 100–150 mm. (spesso concentrata in pochi violenti temporali, anche accompagnati da grandine).

A volte, in maggio, giugno e luglio può soffiare un vento, chiamato "marin", che porta un po' di fresco in alta quota, in quanto l'aria che arriva da sud risente del mar Ligure, ancora freddo.

Le Langhe sono molto nevose, con una media annua di 50–100 cm., anche a bassa quota, con permanenza al suolo di oltre 30 giorni.

Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a una seria riduzione delle precipitazioni, anche nevose, soprattutto a partire dalla tarda primavera, e a un aumento dell'intensità giornaliera autunnale (il 15 settembre 2006 sono caduti oltre 100 mm. di pioggia, nelle 24 ore).

Secondo la classificazione del Köppen tutta la zona al di sopra dei 500 metri, circa, di altitudine è compresa nella categoria Cfb; per contro le terre al di sotto di questa altitudine sono comprese nella categoria Cfa''.

 Centri principali Zona bassa delle Langhe Alba – la "capitale" delle Langhe
 Barolo
 Barbaresco
 Castiglione Falletto
 Castiglione Tinella
 Cherasco
 Diano d'Alba
 Dogliani
 Grinzane Cavour
 La Morra
 Mango
 Monforte d'Alba
 Mombarcaro
 Montelupo Albese
 Neive
 Neviglie
 Novello
 Roddi
 Roddino
 Rodello
 Serralunga d'Alba
 Sinio
 Treiso
 Santo Stefano Belbo
 VerdunoZona alta delle Langhe Albaretto della Torre
 Arguello
 Belvedere Langhe
 Benevello
 Bonvicino
 Borgomale
 Bosia
 Bossolasco
 Camerana
 Cerretto Langhe
 Cissone
 Clavesana
 Cossano Belbo
 Cravanzana
 Feisoglio
 Lequio Berria
 Mombarcaro
 Murazzano
 Niella Belbo
 Rocchetta Belbo
 San Benedetto Belbo
 Serravalle Langhe
 Somano
 Trezzo TinellaValli Bormida e Uzzone Bergolo
 Castelletto Uzzone
 Castino
 Cortemilia - la "regina" delle Langhe
 Gorzegno
 Gottasecca
 Levice
 Monesiglio
 Perletto
 Pezzolo Valle Uzzone
 Prunetto
 Saliceto
 Torre BormidaLanghe Astigiane Bubbio
 Cassinasco
 Cessole
 Loazzolo
 Olmo Gentile
 Roccaverano
 San Giorgio Scarampi
 Serole
 Vesime
 Monastero Bormida
 MombaldoneLanga Cebana'''

 Bastia Mondovì
 Ceva
 Castellino Tanaro
 Cigliè
 Igliano
 Marsaglia
 Montezemolo
 Paroldo
 Roascio
 Rocca Cigliè
 Sale delle Langhe
 Sale San Giovanni
 Torresina

Note

Bibliografia
 Il tempo del vigneto, Enzo Massa
 Langhe, Roero e Monferrato, Touring, 2017
 Langhe E Roero, Touring, 2011

Voci correlate
 Comunità montana delle Valli Bormida e Uzzone
 Riserva naturale speciale delle Sorgenti del Belbo
 Comunità Montana Langhe Astigiane Val Bormida
 Roero (territorio)
 Monferrato

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Colline del Piemonte
Paesaggio vitivinicolo del Piemonte: Langhe-Roero e Monferrato
Patrimoni dell'umanità d'Italia


TODAY'S LINE-UP: Matthew Lloyd, Leigh Matthews, Caroline Wilson, Tim Lane, Tony Leonard, and Doc Larkins.
Magpie star Jeremy Howe spoke to 3AW in the rooms as Collingwood's season ended.
He said he hasn't seen a replay of today's monster mark.
"I'm sure I'll have a look at it tonight, maybe after a couple of beers, and I'll get back to you," Howe said.
Tony: On the fizz tonight?
Collingwood has won by 16 points.
Jamie Elliott booted three, while Will Hoskin-Elliott, Tom Phillips, and Mason Cox all kicked two.
Melbourne remains 7th for the meantime, but their percentage has fallen from 106.4 to 105.2.
Their finals place is now contingent on the results of Essendon (8th) v Fremantle, West Coast (9th) v Adelaide, and Richmond v St Kilda (10th).
If two or more of Essendon, West Coast, and St Kilda lose, Melbourne plays finals.
If Essendon and West Coast win, and West Coast improves its percentage of 104.3 above Melbourne's (about three goals), the Dees are out.
If Essendon and St Kilda win, the Saints would have to win by around 100 points to overtake Melbourne.
If West Coast and St Kilda win, the Saints would have to win by around 100 points to overtake Melbourne.
Collingwood leads by 28 points at the main break.
Jamie Elliott (seven marks, three goals) has been outstanding, while Jeremy Howe has taken (another) Mark of the Year contender.
In worse news for Melbourne, Jesse Hogan appears to have injured his left hamstring.
"I'm not optimistic he'll come back (today), given they've got a finals campaign," Doc said.
Steele Sidebottom also has a hamstring problem.
Melbourne co-captain Jack Viney joined the 3AW commentary box before the game.
Viney said his foot is showing early signs of a stress fracture.
He said he's still not sure if he'll be available for the first week of the finals.
Collingwood star Taylor Adams spoke to 3AW in the lead-up to the game.
Adams said the players are right behind coach Nathan Buckley.
Caro: Do you believe the coach has lost the players?
Adams: Ah, no. I don't.
Lloydy said Adams wouldn't have been allowed back in the rooms if he'd given any other answer, but Caro said she had to ask.
Melbourne can officially secure its long-awaited return to finals with a win over Collingwood on Saturday.
But the Pies will be out to continue their strong finish to the season and take some positive energy into 2018.
Whatever the outcome, the No. 1 commentary team in the game has every moment covered!


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Nostoc is een geslacht van cyanobacteriën, die bolvormige of huidachtige kolonies vormen uit lange, onvertakte celkoorden in een geleiachtige schaal. Ze bevatten groene kleurstoffen in het cytoplasma en fotosynthetiseren. Gespecialiseerde heterocysten binnen de celketens zijn verantwoordelijk voor het binden van stikstof. Nostoc werd door de Vereniging voor Algemene en Toegepaste Microbiologie uitgeroepen tot "Microbe van het jaar 2014".

Voorkomen
Er zijn Nostoc-soorten die in watermassa's leven, bijvoorbeeld op de bodem van zoetwatervijvers en -bronnen (zie bijvoorbeeld vijverpruim). Ze worden ook zeer zelden aangetroffen in zout water. Nostoc-kolonies zijn ook buiten het water te vinden, ook op paden en stenen. Als ze droog zijn, zijn de kolonies flinterdun. Als er water wordt toegevoegd, bijvoorbeeld na een regenbui, zwellen ze op tot een geleiachtige massa.

Veel Nostoc-soorten leven in symbiose met planten of schimmels. Ze komen bijvoorbeeld voor als fotobionten in korstmossen. Bovendien kunnen ze leven in de watervaren Azolla en in hoornwortels. Verschillende Nostoc-stammen leven in symbiose met vertegenwoordigers van het tropische plantengeslacht Gunnera (mammoetblad). De symbiosepartners profiteren van het vermogen van de cyanobacteriën om atmosferische stikstof tot ammonium te reduceren.

Soorten
Nostoc behoort tot de familie Nostocaceae. Hier is een selectie van enkele soorten:
 Nostoc azollae
 Nostoc caeruleum
 Nostoc carneum
 Nostoc comminutum
 Nostoc commune
 Nostoc ellipsosporum
 Nostoc flagelliforme
 Nostoc linckia
 Nostoc longstaffi
 Nostoc microscopicum
 Nostoc muscorum
 Nostoc paludosum
 Nostoc pruniforme
 Nostoc punctiforme
 Nostoc sphaericum
 Nostoc spongiaeforme
 Nostoc verrucosum
 Nostoc zetterstedtii

Literatuur
 Heiko Bellmann/Klaus Hausmann/Klaus Janke/Bruno P. Kremer/Heinz Schneider: Einzeller und Wirbellose. Ohne Weichtiere und Gliederfüßer. Steinbachs Naturführer, Mosaik-Verlag, München 1991. ISBN 3-576-06495-8
 Walter K. Dodds, Dolly A. Gudder, Dieter Mollenhauer The Ecology of Nostoc. In: Journal of Phycology. Band 31, Nr. 1, 1995, S. 2–18

Bacterie


Bringing Down the Cost of Solar PV: A Match Made in Heaven?
It's like that serendipitous combination of chocolate and peanut butter, only the Dept. of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab and Optony are purposely setting out to combine their leading edge efforts to bring down the costs of solar power by wedding the former's record-setting thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) cells with the latter's concentrating solar power (CSP) system.
NREL and Optony announced July 14 that a joint research team will carry out a three-phased project to develop new thin-film solar cells compatible with Optony's optical systems design.
To date, CSP systems have been concentrating sunlight on high-priced, flat panel silicon solar cells that are doped with exotic metals, such as gallium arsenide, the latest generation of which have conversion efficiencies of 40%, meaning that 40% of the sunlight that strikes the panel is converted to electricity.
While they are less efficient – NREL's world record-setting thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell came in at a test conversion efficiency of 19.9%, putting them just shy of the 20% efficiency typical of silicon PV flat panels. In addition, thin film cells are cheaper to produce, more flexible in terms of how they can be used, and can also capture and convert light into electricity in lower light conditions and when sunlight strikes them at a wider range of angles as compared to silicon-based flat panels.
Developing thin-film cells that can withstand and dissipate the tremendous heat they'll be exposed to as a result of having sunlight concentrated on their surfaces by the mirrors used in Optony's CSP systems will be the key to combining the two solar power technologies.
The mirrors used in CSP systems magnify and concentrate sunlight's strength as much as 1,000 times. Silicon isn't a very good conductor of heat, which poses problems for such systems.
"The system will not only be cheaper to manufacture, but also more reliable," Dong Wang, an Optony vice president who will be working on-site as part of the R&D team at NREL, stated optimistically.


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Keith Douglas Davey (Toronto, 21 de abril de 1926 - 17 de janeiro de 2011) foi um político canadense.

No início da carreira, foi coordenador em várias campanhas do seu partido até ganhar a eleição para uma cadeira no senado canadense em 1966. Em 1996, apos 30 anos como Senador, aposentou da política.

Naturais de Toronto
Políticos do Canadá
Mortos em 2011


Primary care physicians are in a prime position to advance the continued implementation of pharmacogenetic testing to improve patient care, according to a review article in the journal Primary Care Reports.
The article, which appeared in the October issue of Primary Care Reports, makes the case that primary care physicians are ideally positioned to advise patients in a manner that will make pharmacogenetic, or drug-sensitivity, testing more clinically useful. The authors write that not only are the vast majority of prescriptions written in the primary care setting, but that an estimated 60 percent of adverse drug events (ADEs) take place in the primary care setting. ADEs, defined as any injury resulting from drug use, contributed to an estimated 13.5 million patient visits between 2005 and 2007.
The review article's authors report that education for primary care physicians on pharmacogenetic testing is an important first step in expanding the use of this technology, citing two published surveys that found a marked lack of self-reported understanding of this testing among primary care physicians. Creating protocols to determine which patients would most benefit from pharmacogenetic testing will also be a key consideration for primary care physicians.
"Despite significant barriers and pitfalls, creating solid protocols for implementation will yield optimal results for physicians and patients as genetic information takes a more prominent place in patient care," the review article authors conclude.
An online CME course through AHC Media focusing on this Primary Care Reports article is available and costs $33.75 for those who do not subscribe to the journal. Learn about what credits are offered through the course, read the article and take the test via the Genelex resources page here.
The article was co-authored by Genelex regional pharmacist liaison Brian Hocum, PharmD, CGP.


Another non-committal three-star rating and I'm left wondering whether the people writing dust-jacket endorsements get to read other versions of the books than I do. A "high-stakes thriller, complete with a mind-bending sci-fi twist [that] will hook you and never let you go"? My mind was not bent and I was not hooked and six months after reading the novel I hardly remember anything about it but that it left me with a feeling of severe dissatisfaction. So, all the good things must have been replaced with (almost) insta-love, lame pseudo-science references and teenage snobbery in my copy.
The book starts with the heroine being hit by a truck and dying – and then being resurrected by this guy she fleetingly knows from school who conveniently happened to pass by and who will turn out to play an integral part of the mystery the hero is trying to solve with the help of her best friend in the ensuing narrative. Twisted dead bodies start shoeing up all around town and the heroine wants (and needs!) to get to the heart of the matter. Speaking of convenience, the heroine also has access to super-secret FBI files pertaining to this particular case through her FBI agent father. Uh-huh.
There's a lot of the dysfunctional family theme going around with the workaholic , and hence mostly absent, father, and the mother's seemingly untreatable bipolar disorder that renders her practically remote and inactive.
And then there's the pretence of science and scientific knowledge.
The writing is okay but the character development, with the possible exception of the main protagonist, and the execution of the story is not so much.
Many people compared this to the TV show Fringe which I've never watched a single episode of, so my expectations weren't very high in that regard. I felt reminded of Veronica Mars and Roswell, but in a way that made me want t re-watch either of these shows instead of reading Unravelling (and while I really loved the first two seasons of VM I discontinued watching R after only one).
I usually love references to popular culture in a novel, but I really disliked the way they were handled in Unravelling. They were numerous and either ridiculously corny or really, really pretentious. The characters, most of all our heroine, seemed quite snobby and judgmental when it came to their personal tastes and preferences. I'm worried that I might have reached an age at which I simply detest teenagers for their ungratefulness, their sense of entitlement, and their know-it-all attitudes. I'm flashbacking to my own youth and getting all embarrassed realising that I might have behaved similarly. I'm pretty sure I was (occasionally) smug and ungrateful. I was passionate about things and not too shy to voice my opinions, but I don't think that I was dismissive about other points-of-view or elitist about things I liked and disliked. I was raised to always try and walk a mile in another person's shoes before judging, which could be quite a drag at times and greatly contributed to a constant guilt complex. However, I did have friends who were very opinionated and quick to dismiss someone as dumb or dull, simply for liking something they believed to be inferior to their educated minds – and I was always rather embarrassed on their behalf. Reading Unravelling was like having to listen to them emphasise their own superiority without being given the chance to contradict them and tell them to shut up.
The heroine paints herself as being nerdy, but I'm not buying it. Being a nerd is all the rage these days and so many people try to jump the bandwagon without realising that this isn't something that can be forced or achieved with a particular set of glasses. Despite the continuous reference to tokens of popular culture people are passionate and nerdy about, the characters seem like posers pretending to be part of a popular underdog culture.
This book throws together so many tropes of YA literature and really achieves nothing much. But the chapters are super short, the prose is eloquent enough and I was kept entertained enough, despite or because of my dislike of the main characters, to read this quickly. So, too simplistic and obvious and scientifically wrong for me to really enjoy, but good brain candy.